re: #58 EPR-radar

My loathing of creationists is one of the main things that stopped me from being a ‘good Republican’ back in my lean-R years.

If we define creationism as the belief that empirical evidence supports a single creation of all life on earth (and especially if that extends to a young earth itself), then it is intrinsically dishonest, since the evidence simply does not do that, and no amount of lying about it will change that conclusion.

rationalwiki.org

Last Thursdayism (alternately Last Tuesdayism or Last Wednesdayism) is the idea that the universe was created last Thursday, but with the physical appearance of being billions of years old. It’s also a counter to the creationism theory. Under Last Thursdayism, books, fossils, light already on the way from distant stars, and literally everything (including your memories of the time before last Thursday) were all formed at the time of creation (last Thursday) in a state such that they appear much older.

The debate on whether Last Thursdayism is true has raged on ever since the creation of the universe last Thursday.